Scutia myrtinaKurz

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WFO wfo-0000504062 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Scutia myrtina, photographed by Corne Brink
fig. a Corne Brink, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-12 / obs. 199084983
Scutia myrtina, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. b Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192883902
Scutia myrtina, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. c Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173727635
Scutia myrtina, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. d Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172909654
Scutia myrtina, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. e Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172034995
Scutia myrtina, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 171577940
Scutia myrtina, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 171580800
Scutia myrtina, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. h Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145601978

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Scutia myrtina is native: Aldabra, Burundi, Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Réunion, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, China South-Central, China Southeast, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam BurundiCape ProvincesDR CongoEswatiniEthiopiaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesRwandaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabweChina South-CentralChina SoutheastIndiaMyanmarSri LankaThailandVietnam AldabraMauritiusRéunionRodrigues
Native distribution of Scutia myrtina, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Aldabra ALD AFRICA
Burundi BUR
Cape Provinces CPP
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mauritius MAU
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Réunion REU
Rodrigues ROD
Rwanda RWA
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Myanmar MYA
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 194 in flower of 755 examined

Peak flowering in Dec. Each bar is the share of Scutia myrtina observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 194 of 755 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 28 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Adolia alba Lam.
  • Adolia capensis Kuntze
  • Adolia myrtina Kuntze
  • Adolia obcordata (Biv. ex Tul.) Kuntze
  • Adolia rubra Lam.
  • Blepetalon aculeatum Raf.
  • Catha zeylanica (Roth) G.Don
  • Ceanothus capensis DC.
  • Ceanothus circumscissus Gaertn.
  • Ceanothus circumscissus var. pauciflorus DC.
  • Ceanothus zeyhanicus B.Heyne
  • Celastrus zeylanicus Roth ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Rhamnus capensis Thunb.
  • Rhamnus circumscissa L.f.
  • Rhamnus indica Grubov
  • Rhamnus myrtina Burm.f.
  • Scutia capensis (Thunb.) G.Don
  • Scutia capensis f. obcordata (Boivin & Tul.) Radlk.
  • Scutia circumscissa (L.f.) W.Theob.
  • Scutia commersonii Brongn.
  • Scutia eberhardtii Tardieu
  • Scutia hutchinsonii Suess.
  • Scutia lucida G.Don
  • Scutia myrtina var. emarginata Bhandari & Bhansali

and 4 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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